new blog post: knowingless.com/2020/06/12/rac
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Dang, this is really good! My instinct is to say that there does need to be atonement (it’s originally an invented word for at-one, and we do need to be at one as a country), but I have no inclination as to how that should look.
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The one thing that surprised me was "I don’t see a lot of discourse around this" because isn't the AA community known for doing a LOT of community development work with a high focus on responsibility & fatherhood?
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Oh is it? It's probably not hitting the circles I'm seeing, maybe I'm missing it
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White people aren't an abusive father. People need to realize that shit that they didn't do or didn't happen to them are not their problem. Not feeling responsible for the sins of someone else would heal more than pretending you can forgive someone that you don't have the power 2
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For a long time I struggled with how to make sense of the long standing racial tensions. I didn't know how to *process* collective identity at all. I still kind of don't - collective identity feels really nonsensical to me. But it *is* a frame that other people are using, so
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I think this is extremely good and I hate that I can't say this from my main account
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Yes, they have to take responsibility. Any person who's recovering from abuse needs to take responsibility for their own life in order to heal and move forward and flourish. If you're stuck in trying to punish other people for the horrible things they've done then you won't heal.
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